The Cooperation Centre for Scientific Research Relative to Tobacco (CORESTA) announced a survey to evaluate interest in performing research on shisha tobacco...
Archive - May 2017
The volume of tobacco delivered to market rose to about 4 million kg per day from 3 million kg as the season entered its sixth week, according to Zimbabwe...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) confirmed it has pushed back all deadlines that fall on or after May 10 for tobacco products covered under the deeming...
Japan Tobacco (JT) said falling cigarette sales due to market gains by tobacco heating products and other vapour devices are cutting into group revenue, but...
Japan Tobacco International shipment volume declined 2.9 per cent in the first quarter as gains in the rest of the world failed to offset lower demand in the...
British American Tobacco (BAT) launched its heat-not-burn product in Canada, the third country for the device sold under the glo brand in Japan and...
Proposals to ease product approval regulations for e-cigarettes are not part of the federal spending plan agreed by Congressional leaders, according to a...
Star Tobacco International appointed Hector Echeverria as its new general manager for Latin- and Central America and said Efe Abdullahoglu has assumed the...
Higher cigarette prices at Philip Morris USA boosted operating profit despite a 2.6 per cent decline in first-quarter shipment volume, said parent company...
Reynolds American (RAI) cigarette volume fell 4.4 per cent in the first quarter due to wholesale inventory movements, more than the estimated 3.1 per cent...
Imperial Tobacco shipments of growth brands that include JPS and Davidoff increased in the six months to 31 March, however overall cigarette volume was down...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is postponing by three months deadlines that fall after 10 May in its deeming rule on e-cigarettes, cigars and shisha...
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) panel reviewing the world’s first law requiring plain packaging for tobacco products has ruled Australia’s action was...
Former Reynolds American president and chief executive Susan Cameron has been elected RAI non-executive chairman, the company said.
The adult smoking rate fell nearly six percentage points to 23.8 per cent between 2009 and 2015, according to the latest WHO Global Adult Tax Survey (GATS)...
Altria Group General Counsel Denise Keane will retire on 1 July after 40 years of service, the company said. Her successor will be Deputy General Counsel...
Swedish Match snus and moist snuff sales rose in the first quarter as the US market offset a slight decline in Scandinavia, the company said.
The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump’s choice of Scott Gottlieb as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Washington Post...